Fml, I forgot the essay question she gave us and I can't find my planner.
Oh well.
DISTRACTING
NOSTALGIC
MEME
TIME!
How many of these can you tick?
1. You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air". (half of it. I'm rusty)
2. You remember when it was actually worth getting up on a Saturday morning to watch cartoons. (I woke up at 7:30am religiously damn it. I was more punctual to my cartoons than church.)
3. You had a huge fringe at some point in your childhood. (And it was EPIC.)
4. You remember reading and watching "Goosebumps". (And being terrified after only one book and refusing to read it again)
5. You took plastic cartoon lunchboxes to school. (Barbie, bitches.)
6. You remember the craze of YoYo's and Tamagotchis (and the subsequent banning of them in school). (I miss Kimmi, my dear tamagotchi.)
7. You still get the urge to say "Not" after every sentence. (Not.)
8. Go go Power Rangers! (*AIR GUITAAAARRR*)
9. You collected Pokémon cards. (And had a stack 12 inches high. Then I lost them. FML)
10. You played and/or collected Pogs. (Nope.)
11. You had a weird alien that lived in gooey stuff in a plastic 'pod' and thought that if you stuck two of them back to back they would have a baby! (I think, over the course of a year, I'd had about 5 alien babies)
12. You watched the original Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Ninja Turtles (back in the day when they were 'Hero' Turtles). (Yes, yes and no)
13. You remember when the new Beenie Babies were always sold out. (My god, yes.)
14. You got your mum to buy 'BN' buscuits. (BN BN doo dooo do do do.)
15. You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears but at the corners of your eyes. (In ten fabulous colours)
16. You know the Macarena by heart and Saturday Night too. (one and a two and a three macarena)
17. "Talk to the hand". (Because the face ain't home, leave a message at the tone, beep.)
18. You remember the time before Literacy and Numeracy hour existed. (Sadly so.)
19. You thought that Brain from "Pinkey and the Brain" actually could take over the world. (duh)
20. You remember Bum Bags, they weren't even cool then. (... no.)
21. You always wanted to be on Fun House. (Also no.)
22. You collected Tazos. (Heard about them, didn't bother.)
23. Spice Girls. (SOOO I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT)
24. "Clarissa Explains It All" and "Saved By The Bell" were your favourite shows. (Iiiit's all right because I'm Saved by the Bell~!)
25. You wore as many shag bands as you could fit on your arm. (*snerk* what.)
26. You remember Robbie leaving and Take That splitting up. (Spice Girls were the only music I listened to.)
27. You wanted lights in your trainers like the cool kids. (I HAD lights in my trainers like all the cool kids. Still didn't make me cool.)
28. Nintendo was replaced by Super Nintendo (sorry but the Princess is in another castle). (FUCK YOU KOOPA)
29. Computer screens were black (or green) with white writing. (Oh god, it's a blurry memory, but it's there.)
30. Disney, Coke and MacDonalds ruled the world. (All hail the three true world powers)
31. You thought that "South Park" was hilarious even if you didn't get half the jokes. (Nope.)
32. You had a Nokia 3310 (or really wanted one). (SO. HARD. CORE.)
33. Michael Jackson was weird but still respected for his music. (Who?)
34. All the boys had their hair in 'curtains'. (Lol yes. Oh Neeeeemoooo)
35. Nickelodeon was cool. (NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NICKELODEON!)
36. The Chuckle Brothers were not. (Ever.)
37. "Wax on, Wax off." (A- Wax on, wax off)
38. You wore Addidas 3 stripe joggers or poppers. (... *hangs head in shame*)
39. Nike Air Max and Reebok Classics were 'must have' trainers (and Kickers for school). (*nod* not that I had them. *glares at Bootleg*)
40. Girls thought blue mascara looked good.
41. Girls thought hair mascara looked good.
42. You remember Mr. Motivator. (Oh fuck yeah.)
43. You had scrunchies in every colour and hair bands with your name on it in glitter. (AND ALL OF THEM CLASHED WITH MY ORANGE HAIR. YAAAAY)
44. You bought Smash Hits Magazine for the song lyrics. (nope)
45. Everyone owned something from NafNaf or Fruit Of The Loom (probably in grey). (nope)
46. You ate Spicy Tomato flavour Space Raiders (and they were only 10p!). (THOSE. WERE. DELICIOUS.)
47. Tammy Girl was where we got our cool clothes. (... yes.)
48. Good Saturday evening telly consisted of "Gladiators", "Catchphrase" and "Noel's House Party". (Gladiators, definitely, but after that it was bedtime)
49. You loved CKone. (Nope)
50. It's PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec.
51. Everyone ate Fruit Salads and Black Jacks. (I lost two teeth to those bastards.)
52. Chris Evans presented everything. (Seriously. He like ruled TV land)
53. You had at least one Troll. (I had three, thanks very much.)
54. You had / wanted / hated Furbys. (I do not understand my younger self. Those things creep me the feck out now, and I used to have THREE.)
55. You remember that "Hooch" was the original alcopop. (Nope)
56. You taped the Pepsi Chart Show.
57. "I know you are, you said you are, but what am I then?" was the answer to all insults. ("I know you are but what am I?" "A bumhead!" "I know you are but what am I" "A bumhead!" so on and so forth)
58. You shouted "LEG IT!" when running away from something. (Followed by screaming.)
59. You wore jelly shoes. (I made those things look good too.)
60. You loved "Knightmare" and "The Crystal Maze" (which are now repeated on Challege TV!). (The latter, certainly. DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUH DUH DUN!)
61. You were always singing the theme tune to "Round The Twist". (Nope.)
62. They will ALWAYS be Opal Fruits, not Starbursts. (I remember my horror when they changed the name and I couldn't find any Opal Fruits in the shop)
63. You had a million gel pens. (A million billion, and chewed the ends. Multicoloured mouth anyone?)
64. You watched "The Poddington Peas". (Occasionally.)
65. You remember classic Levi's ads such as "Spaceman" and "Flat Eric". (Nope)
66. "If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club". (OM NOM FUCKING NOM MATE. YES.)
67. You remember the craze of Sratch and Sniff. (Cartoon Network ran it for ages.)
68. You remember Sony Walkmans. (And cassettes.)
69. You know who Alf is. (He scared me. I think it's the phallic nose.)
70. You waited for 7.30pm on BBC1 every Friday to watch TOTP. (Wasn't allowed up that late.)
71. You wanted to / tried to make Tracey Island. (Nope.)
72. You compared football stickers/Pokemon cards/Digimon cards in the playground "got, got, need". (Got, got, got, got three, got, fake, got, OH MY GOD IS THAT A SHINY MEW I'LL GIVE YOU MY SOUL FOR IT.)
73. You know the YMCA off by heart. (YOUNG MAN, NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME.)
74. You always used a pencil at school. (For a long time. Our school was competative; if your handwriting was better, you could climb the ranks, from pencil to pen to fountain pen.)
75. There were only 151 Pokemon. Gotta catch 'em all! (And then it exploded. *goes to play Pokemon Red*
76. Everybody collected conkers. (Ah, the days before Health and Safety. CONKER TO THE EYE AHAHAH)
77. Barney the purple dinosaur :) (From our imagination- GO AWAY GO AWAY GO AWAY)
78. Jetix was actually called Fox Kids. (Oh god, yes. The source of my anime in those days was Fox Kids.)
79. Telytubby say bye bye, Telytubby saybye bye :) (Biiiiig awwwwww)
80. 'It' was the ultimate playground game followed by Stuck In The Mud. And also Duck, Duck, GOOSE! (And 40/40. I was queen of that.)
81. Every Disney film was a classic. (LION KING, LITTLE MERMAID, SLEEPING BEAUTY, SNOW WHITE, PETER PAN, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!)
82. You believed in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. ADMIT IT ;) (...y- you mean... they're not real?)
83. The word 'stupid' was regarded almost as much as a swear word. ( *shock and revulsion* Well, I never!)
84. Rock, paper, scissors would decide everything. But even then you would still argue. (YOU TOTALLY CHANGED IT LAST MINUTE)
85. The coolest thing was to say 'cool'. (Sub-zero.)
86. When videos were everything and when DVDs got released they were not cool. (I can actually remember thinking "it will never catch on". Wow, I was an old lady in a 9 year old's body.)
87. There was a show called Digimon. (DIGIMON, DIGITAL MONSTERS, DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS)
88. You always said it was 'opposite day'. (I never did that on every other Monday.)
89. Dragon Ball-Z. (HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!)
88. The N64 was the coolest console. (And only my neighbour had it. We worshiped at that thing.)
89. The best cartoon was either Loony Tunes, Tom and Jerry or Pokemon. (Do I have to pick only one?)
90. You always said you wanted to do everything on Art Attack but you never even attempted it. (... I did. Once. Parents stopped me doing it again.)
91. You pleaded with your parents to get you ice-cream eveytime you heard the ice-cream van music. (That sound is the doom of parent's wallets.)
92. Fort Boyard with the dwarfs and the tigers :) And always thinking you could do every challenge on there. (... what.)
93. You would write Yes and No on both sides of a rubber then flip it to answer questions. (*...still does that*)
94. There was once a shop called Woolworths. (PICK'N'MIX NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!)
95. Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League. (Didn't pay much attention to sports.)
96. Your favourite dinosaur was T-Rex :D (RAWR)
97. Ba ba ba, ba Babybel. (Damn it, now I want to eat one.)
98. You would wear the most embarassing clothes even though back then they were regarded as normal. (*sense of style hasn't really moved on much. >>;;*)
99. S-CLUB 7 (there ain't no party like an S-CLUB PARTY!)
Wow. I feel old.